Inventing Laziness

Inventing Laziness
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9781108667517
ISBN-13 : 1108667511
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Book Synopsis Inventing Laziness by : Melis Hafez

Download or read book Inventing Laziness written by Melis Hafez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez explores the anxiety about productivity that generated reforms as well as new understandings of morality, subjectivity, citizenship, and nationhood among the Ottomans.


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